Chapter 4

It has been a little over a week since the troll incident and Ron is still serving detentions for his insensitive remark about Hermione.

Rose and Hermione are sitting in the Great Hall, eating their breakfast, when a flock of owls entered delivering the mail. A Snow White owl dropped off what looked like a piece of spherical metal with glass covering the top of it, with golden trimmings, along with a note that read 'play me' on it, in front of Rose. The owl than landed on Rose's shoulder. Rose smiled at the owl, scratched the bird's head, whom seemed to enjoy it, and then Rose gave the owl a couple of pieces of bacon. The owl quickly took the pieces of bacon and flew off into the rafters to eat her reward in peace.

"I've never seen that owl before," Hermione said. "She's gorgeous."

"That she is," Rose said with a smirk, "Don't let her hear you say that she has a big enough ego as it is."

"What's her name?" Hermione asked.

As Rose removes the note from her delivery she responded, "Hedwig. I got her in Diagon, when I was shopping for my school supplies, but she bonded with one of my fairy friends back at Alfea, so I let her stay with her. Now what does my message say?"

As Rose touched the glass part of the sphere an 1-inch image of a pink haired fairy appeared before it started talking, "Hi Rose, I hope Hogwarts is treating you well. Sorry that I couldn't send you a message earlier but classes here at Alfea has started to pick up and the teachers are burying us in homework. The girls at The Tower also stepping up their pranks too. Anyway your friends at Alfea miss you."

With that the image of the girl faded, Rose merely smiled, while Hermione, and those surrounding them looked shocked. Rose put the recording in her bag, it was Hermione who broke the silence.

"What was that? Technology can't work at Hogwarts, it says so in Hogwarts: A History!"

"It's fairy tech," Rose explained, "Fairies have discovered ways to combine magic and technology for things that neither one alone can't do alone. The girl that was in the recording, Tecna, is the most gifted girl, our age, in technomancy. "

"Can anybody learn it," another girl asked, Cho Chang if Rose remembered correctly.

"I don't see why not," Rose said with a shrug, "I have a few books for beginners that I'm willing to lend out for those who are interested."

"I'm sure the whole school could benefit from it," said a voice from behind Rose, causing several students to jump in surprise, while Rose remained unaffected.

Rose looked behind and saw the small Ravenclaw Head of House, Flitwick, Rose smiled at the Professor and said, "I am sure it would but according to Headmaster Dumbledore, the school doesn't enough room in the budget for it."

Flitwick raised an eyebrow at this and said, "Thank you for informing me. What is this Tower that your messaged referenced?"

"The Dragon's Tower Witchcraft, an all girls school," Rose responded, "It is a rival all girls school of Alfea. Despite its name they do accept Fairies. Though they do focus more on the magics that we've practiced before the Fairies went into hiding, including the borderline dark and barely legal magics."

Flitwick nodded in understanding and moved on.

Rose then looked at Hermione and said, "Our class starts in 30, do you want to go ahead and go?"

"Why it takes 10 minutes to get there?" Hermione replied.

"It'll take an additional 20 if we go out of our way to see Ron's detention with Filch this morning," Rose said with an evil grin.

Hermione giggled at this as she stood up and grabbed her bag and asked, "What is he doing as detention?"

"Rumor has it that Filch is having Ron clean the library." Rose replied with a grin.

"I bet that's the closest he has gotten to a book all semester."

"You don't see me arguing, I've heard Professor McGonagall is also getting onto him for his grades."

In the History of Magic class, Professor Binns is droning on about a goblin rebellion from nearly a couple of millennia ago, and how the Roman magicals responded to it. It was rather an unimpressive goblin rebellion as nothing was gained or lost because of it.

Rose was trying to finish her transfiguration essay while Binns drone on as she had a quill to take down what Binns was saying. Hermione seemed to be the only one paying attention as the other students were somehow goofing off or taking a nap.

Rose's nose started to itch and before she could do anything about it, she let out a sneeze and fire flew out of her mouth destroying her her History of Magic notes, along with her quill.

Rose eyes widened and several students, who were goofing off, and Hermione looked at Rose in surprise.

Rose quickly got up and quickly said to Hermione, "I'm going to Madam Pomfrey, can you take notes for me?"

"What about Professor Binns?" Hermione asked.

"We've been here for just over 2 months and I've yet to see him acknowledge any of his students. Have you?" Rose responded before letting another sneeze and fire out of her mouth.

"Are you going to be alright?" Hermione asked

Rose nodded, "I think I'm coming down with a virus that affects Fairies, like the common cold with the non-magicals."

With that said, Rose went to Madam Pomfrey, where she quickly identified the problem, as she was speeding she was trying to find the right potion, "You have the Fairy Fire Fever. Good thing you insisted on me contacting your healer at Alfea or I would have probably would have sent you to St. Mungo's. Ah, here it is."

She picked up an unassuming bottle filled with a purplish liquid and she carefully portioned out the right amount of the liquid that came out of the bottle and as she handed the potion to Rose sneezed again, in Madam Pomfrey's direction, nearly causing her to drop the contents of the glass, which the potion was in.

"Careful where you sneeze," Madam Pomfrey scolded.

Rose took the glass and quickly drank all the contents of it. Rose had a disgusted look on her face, "I never liked the potion for this." She sneezed again and this time only a spark came out.

"You May not like it but you can't deny the results though," Pomfrey responded.

Just then the doors to the infirmary bolted open and Professor McGonagall was dragging 2 first years by the arms.

Rose merely raised an eyebrow at her fellow year mates, it was Ron and Draco.

Ron didn't look so good as he was also carry a bucket with him that had a revolting smell coming from it and it didn't take long for Rose to know what the bucket was for as a slug came out of Ron's mouth and into the bucket.

Draco seemed almost alright, except for his face as he had zits, not ordinary zits, instead of read bumps covering his face, he had miniaturized bullheads constantly mooing.

"What happened?" Pomfrey asked in a stern voice.

"I had my students pair up some transfiguration practice when these 2 got it into their heads to curse each other," McGonagall replied.

"I'm sure you've punished them accordingly," Pomfrey stated more than asked as she examined the 2 boys. McGonagall didn't need to answer.

"Fortunately for them, it is nothing serious," Pomfrey said as she finished, "For young Ronald the best course of action is to let it run its course, as it'll run its course within the hour. As for Draco…Rose can you fetch my anti curse book, it's in the top left shelf of my desk. It has been a few years since I've performed the proper countercurse for Draco's infliction."

Rose quickly went over to the healers desk and got the book that she asked for and as Pomfrey skimmed the book for the proper treatment, Snape came in and saw the condition Draco was in and saw Rose too, "Potter! I'll see that you have caused another problem!"

"Snape calm down," Mcgonagall said to her fellow Head of House, "Ms. Potter was already here before Draco and Ron, and these 2 boys cursed each other in my class, which had no Ravenclaws in it at the time."

Snape merely sneered.

"Don't you have a class to teach?" Rose asked.

"Classes ended nearly 10 minutes ago," Snape responded with a sneer.

Rose didn't respond as she looked at Madam Pomfrey, "Unless you prefer me to stay a while longer I'm going back to my dorm."

"Hmm," Pomfrey said before she registered the question, "You can go Ms. Potter, the potion should have taken full effect by now. I'd like to see you before you start your classes tomorrow though, to be on the safe side."

Rose nodded and as she about to leave, Snape stopped her by grabbing onto her arm and whispered in her ear, "If you so much as lay a tow out of line, I'll have you on the Hogwarts express before you can say Hogsmeade."

With that he let go of Rose's arm and she made her exit.

Inside Rose's library trunk, Rose was standing at a podium with a giant open book in front of her, which was a meter tall and wide, and Hermione was standing beside her.

"How does this work," Hermione asked.

"Simple you place your hand on the books page and say out loud what you're looking for," Rose explained, "If you are looking for a particular spell or individual it'll summon all the books that they are referenced in. For example: Technomagic."

As soon as she said that several dozen book flew off the shelves and started hovering around them.

"As you can these books are all books that have technomagic in them, in order to narrow it down further, you have to be more specific. Technomagic for beginners."

Many of the books flew back to the shelves where they came from, leaving only 4 floating in the air around them. Rose looked around at the books before grabbing one of the books. As she removed her hand from the giant book the remaining hovering books returned where they came from.

Rose handed the book over to Hermione and said, "This is the book on the theory behind Technomagic."

Hermione smiled and said, "Thanks."

Hermione's face then grew serious and asked, "What was with the fire magic in Professor Binns class?"

Rose sighed before she responded, "It was a result of me contracting a fairy illness, Fairy Fire Fever. Whenever a fairy gets infected with the virus, the fairy performs accidental fire based magic. Other species are unaffected, so you don't have to worry about catching it."

Hermione realized what she was getting at, "That's why you had fire coming out of your mouth when you sneezed!"

Rose nodded and continued, "It doesn't always work that way though. I knew a girl whose hair caught fire every time she hiccuped."

Deciding not to press they left Rose's trunk library.

As Rose locked her trunk she felt like she was being watched and she used magic on the door to her dorm and it opened as eight girls, from different years, fell into the dorm room. As Rose and Hermione looked at the pile of bodies, the girls in the pile quickly recouperted.

"Can we borrow a book about technomancy?" Padma asked in a hopeful voice. The other girls nodded in agreement, enthusiastically, causing Rose to sweat drop as they had hopeful and innocent expressions on their faces.

Letting out a deep sigh, Rose replied, "I did promise that'll you all could borrow books about it."

A few minutes later each of the girls had a copy of the beginners guide for technomancy and they were eagerly reading their copy of the book in Ravenclaw common room.

To Be Continued...